A world without love is a deadly place.
Women’s worst invention was the plow. With the beginning of plow agriculture, men’s roles became extremely powerful. Women lost their ancient jobs as collectors.
Women have never been as interesting as they are now. Not at any time on this planet have women been so educated, so interesting, so capable.
Nobody gets out of love alive. You turn into a menace or a pest when you’ve been rejected.
Men and women are like two feet; they can help each other get ahead.
Sometimes we fall in love with somebody who will probably never love us, for reasons having nothing to do with us but with their own mindset, their chemistry.
Romantic love allows you to focus mating energy. Attachment sustains that relationship as long as necessary to raise your baby.
Young women today do not marry the men they met in high school, or even the one they go out with at college, because they do not need to.
A woman of 40 or 50 or 60 can take estrogen replacements, get facelifts, spend her money in bars.
Despite the myth that men are less committed, they are predisposed to desire marriage.
We spend our lives trying to get along with people so we can keep our jobs, keep our marriages together, so that we can raise our kids properly.
Kissing is not just kissing. It is a major escalation or de-escalation point in a powerful process of mate choice.
Women are better at reading body language everywhere in the world. As a matter of fact, it’s associated with the female hormone estrogen. Women are better at figuring out of tone of voice, reading your face and posture and gesture.
Blushing is thought to be linked to increased levels of norepinephrine in the brain, which may be associated with romantic feelings. It signals that we are interested and excited, which is attractive to men.
Romantic love is an addiction: a perfectly wonderful addiction when it’s going well, and a perfectly horrible addiction when it’s going poorly.
Women are very attracted to a low voice because it’s linked to testosterone, which for millions of years was a sign that men had very good spacial skills and would have been very good at hunting and finding their way back home.
When you massage someone, the levels of oxytocin go up in the brain, and oxytocin is one of the chemicals that drives attachment.
My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you’re simply more relaxed.
The reason you take antidepressants is to feel calm. And romantic love is not calm -it’s elation, it’s mood swings, and you’re killing all that when you take the drug.
If two very different people pool their DNA, they’ll create more genetic variety, and their young will come to the job of parenting with a wider array of skills.